Monthly Archives: April 2017

Help Us Find Your Blog (and others)

Posted on April 23, 2017 by TheZvi

Previously: Against Facebook – Call to Action, Against Facebook – Details Note (5/2): Due to my need to prepare for Magic: The Gathering’s Pro Tour: Amonkhet, updates to this blog and progress exploring new blogs will be slow for the … Continue reading →

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Against Facebook: Comparison to Alternatives and Call to Action

Posted on April 22, 2017 by TheZvi

Previously: Against Facebook: Details Take Action: Help Us Find Your Blog (and others) Epistemic Status: Shouting from the rooftops. For further details, see previous post. This post is my recommendations for how to communicate online. If you need details and/or detailed … Continue reading →

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Against Facebook

Posted on April 22, 2017 by TheZvi

Leads to: Against Facebook: Comparison to Alternatives and Call to Action, Help Us Find Your Blog (and others) Epistemic Status: Eliezer Yudkowsky writing the sequences. They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom. Galileo. This army. Chris Christie to Marco Rubio at … Continue reading →

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United We Blame

Posted on April 16, 2017 by TheZvi

Blame Index Funds: Overbooking and Cross Selling (first story) Blame The Law: The Deeper Scandal of That Brutal United Video Blame The Culture of Law Enforcement in Aviation:The Real Reason a Man Was Dragged Off That United Flight and How To Stop … Continue reading →

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Escalator Action

Posted on April 12, 2017 by TheZvi

Epistemic Status: Slow ride. Take it easy. You Memba Elevator Action? I memba. A recent study (link is to NY Times) came out saying that we should not walk on escalators, because not walking is faster. From the article: The train … Continue reading →

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You’re Good Enough, You’re Smart Enough, and People Would Like You

Posted on April 9, 2017 by TheZvi

Epistemic Status: Playing the odds Originality Status: Very low. These are not unique views and this has been said many times before, so apologies if you’ve seen it many times before, but the message never gets through, so we keep … Continue reading →

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Why Rationality?

Posted on April 8, 2017 by TheZvi

Previously: Responses to Tyler Cohen on Rationality Recently: Yes, We Have Noticed the Skulls, When Rationalists Remade the World Repeat as Necessary: Principle of Charity A lot of people do not understand the appeal. I was surprised to find that Will Wilkinson was among … Continue reading →

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Responses to Tyler Cowen on Rationality

Posted on April 4, 2017 by TheZvi

In his recent podcast with Ezra Klein (recommended), Ezra asked Tyler his views on many things. One of them was the rationality community, and he put that response on Marginal Revolution as its own post. Here is the back and … Continue reading →

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